2. History
Started in 1987 by Kris Lakshmikanth - MBA from IIM
Kolkata – India’s top B-School
22 Years ++ in Executive Recruitment – 1987 to 2009
Rated among the top 5 in the country by The Economist
Magazine , London , UK
Top Management carries over 140 man-years of managerial
experience in industry in India & abroad – Africa, Middle-
East & US.
Top Management Experience is across Automobiles, BPO,
Consumer Goods, Chemicals, Engineering, Financial
Services, FMCG, Realty, RPO, Staffing, Shipyards,
Software etc
3.
Top Management Search
Executive Selection
Turn-key Staffing Projects
Flexi Staffing
2 Companies
The Head Hunters India Pvt Limited
Placements.com Private Limited
4 Businesses
5. The ExecutiveManagement Team
Kris Lakshmikanth, MBA – IIMC , Founder Chairman & Managing Director
MBA from IIM Kolkata - India’s premier business school
Founded The Head Hunters India in 1987 from a garage in Bangalore
Pioneer of the “Headhunting” concept in India
Over a decade of industry experience in senior positions in sales and marketing
Asian Paints, Duncans Group before starting The Head Hunters India
Over 2 decades in Executive Search
Executive Committee member of various industry associations – BCIC, ERA
Visiting Faculty at IIM Bangalore, XIM etc
Industry Spokesman on HR related issues , employment, jobs etc
Regularly interviewed on various industry issues by Indian and international media
- Reuters, Financial Times London, Asian Wall Street Journal, CNN IBN, CNBC
, NDTV, Aajtak TV , Headlines Today TV and leading newspapers / magazines –
Economic Times, Mint-WSJ, The Time International Magazine, CFO Magazine,
Business Line, Times of India etc
6. The Executive Management Team
Ravindran Rajendran MBA , Partner & Senior Vice President , Chennai - Head IT & ITES
Practice
Veteran HRD specialist from software industry.
Over 20 years experience at TCS and Hexaware India & Hexaware USA
Strong roots in HRD & Senior level Recruitment.
Handles Senior Technology / BPO searches in India, USA and Europe
based out of Chennai
Shilla Shree , Post-Graduate, Partner & Senior Vice President , Bangalore - Head CXO
Search SBU
Over 15 years industry experience in Realty and Financial Services
3 years in Executive Search at The Head Hunters India
Handles senior level searches in India and overseas, based out of
Bangalore
7. Key Executives
Dr Subramani Uthappa, Engineer, MBA, PhD, Senior Vice
President – Head Business Development
Over 19 years industry experience in Consumer durables,
Ship Building and Automobiles in India and overseas
Heads Global Business Development out of Bangalore
Has worked in reputed groups like the Tata Group, Bosch
Group, Hyundai etc
Parthasarathy Chakravarthi, Engineer & MBA, Senior Vice
President , Chennai – Head Telecom & Engineering
Practice
Over 16 years industry experience in sales and marketing
of FMCG
Handles all Telecom & Engineering & Infrastructure
related searches out of Chennai
Has worked in reputed Chemical & FMCG companies
8. Key Executives
Mr. Rana Datta, Engineer, MBA , Senior Vice President &
Head Mumbai
Over 18 years of industry experience in Manufacturing, FMCG,
Financial Services & ITES with top Indian/MNC companies
Has worked in companies like Wipro Consumer, Marico, Pepsi,
ABN Amro, IBM, Satyam BPO in senior positions
9. The fabric of our client relationships
Great spread of client base
Long relationships and hence repeat business
Our first client way back in 1987 was the US $ 3. 00 Billion
RPG Group.
Today, in 2008, we are still one of their key vendors
First VP Sales of CEAT Tyres was given by us in 1989. We
recruited their current VP Sales in 2005. CEAT has grown
from Rs. 200 crores to Rs 2000 crores in this period
VP Sales recruited for Sterling Resorts is now MD of
Mahindra Holiday Resorts
Many senior people we have placed over years are heading
top companies today
10. Representative Clients
Amazon
Swatch Group India
LMS International
L&T Group
HCL India / Japan / USA
Aditya Birla Group
RPG Group
Comcraft Group Worldwide
Microland
Hexaware India, Europe &US
Zensar Technologies
Datacom Solutions
Sistema Shyam Telecom
Etisalat Telecom
Bangla Trac Communications
Bangladesh
Reliance Communications
Aircel
Tata Tele Group
TVS ICS
Mahindra Holiday Resorts
Austrian Energy
Heritage Retail
Kuwait Investment Authority
HSBC Bank
ICICI Bank
Jaypee Securities
Religare Securities
Café Coffee Day
Vivus Healthcare
Columbia Asia Healthcare
Manipal Education
Manipal Healthcare
Kuwait Investment Authority
Paramount Dubai
Birlasoft Australia
Shahi Exports
Reliance Life Sciences
Adani Group
Tyco
PWC
17. Executive Search Divsion
Started in 1987
Pioneers in India in CXO level searches
across sectors
Personally lead by Kris Lakshmikanth ,
CEO
Proven track record for successful searches
in India, USA , UK, Europe etc
18. Executive Search - Success Stories I
Technology
Mr. Anirban Ghosh, Head Global Practice, Hexaware USA
Mr Vijay Ratnaparke, COO, Robert Bosch India , Bangalore
Mr Arup Gupta, President & COO , Polaris Software , Chennai
Mr P.K. Sridharan, Executive Director, Hexaware India
Mr Sunil Surya, Managing Director , Hexaware Europe
Mr Shiva Rangaswamy, Head Retail Practice, Zensar, Pune
Mr Chandran, Head ERP , Zensar Pune
Mr Sridhar Rangachari, AVP – Banking, Hexaware , Chennai
Mr Anurag Gupta, VP – Enterprise Sales Microland USA
Mr Rajaram Natarajan, HTMT Limited Hyderabad
Mr Sabyasachi Mishra, Head HR, Manthan Limited Bangalore
Mr Vishal Lakhina, Director, Sales, HCL America
Mr Ramesh C, Vice President Testing , Hexaware UK
Mr Surendra , Hexaware UK
Mr Srinivas , Westend Capital, Hyderabad
Mr Surendra , Account Manager, Hexaware, Germany
Mr Dharmender, HR Head, Heritage Retail, Hyderabad
Mr. Shirish, Hexaware Germany
Mr. Sanjay Mendiratta, Head Investor Relations, HCL Technologies, Delhi
Mr. C Ramesh, Hexaware UK
Mr. Srinivas, Flagstone Capital Hyderabad
19. Executive Search - Success Stories II
Technology
Mr P Mohan, Head Mainframes, Inautix Chennai
Mr. Bharadwaj, Vice President , Collabera Bangalore
Mr Subikrishna, Delivery Head – Supply chain, Peoplesoft Bangalore
Mr Ravi Ramaswamy,Medical Systems Group,Philips Software
Mr Srinivas Prabhakar, CFO – BEA Weblogic Inc
Mr Ravi Garg, Relationship Manager, Hexaware Germany
Mr Suresh Mani, Head Recruitment, GCI Bangalore
Mr Jay Menon, Head Recruitment, Polaris, Chennai
Mr Girish Khilari, Avaya India , Pune
Mr Koushik Ganguly, Director, Sales, Polaris USA
Mr Amith Jain, BDM – East Coast, Microland, USA
Mr Venkatesan, Head HR , ISG Novasoft India
Mr Neeraj Soni, Country Head UK, Microland
Mr Suresh Songa, Delivery Head, GCI, Bangalore
20. Executive Search - Success Stories III
Auto, Garment, Textiles, Telecom, Infrastructure
Mr. Partho Dutta Gupta, Country Manager & CEO, Swatch India
Mr. Arvind Santhanam, Circle Business Head, Datacom Chennai
Mr. Saurabh Gupta, COO – North India, Swan Telecom
Mr Sanjay Sinha, Vice President Projects, Mahindra Gesco , Jaipur SEZ
Mr Jagdish, CEO – Retail Division, Heritage Fresh, Hyderabad
Mr Vineesh Chaddha , CEO , Colorplus Garments, Chennai
Mr Arnab Bannerjee, VP Sales & Marketing, Ceat Tyres, Mumbai
Mr Harry Mativor , VP Operations – Ambattur Clothing, Chennai
Mr Jyothirmoy Basu, President HR – Times Group, Delhi
Mr Sudhir Mittal, Business Head, Minda Automotive Group, Delhi
Mr Rajan Damodar Sapre, VP , Minda Automotive Group, Delhi
Mr Ravi Prabhakar, GM, Arvind Mills, Ahmedabad
Mr Sanjeev Saxena, GM – Sales, Bajaj Auto, Pune
Mr Surendranath, PT Wearwell, Indonesia
Mr Shankar Iyer, Vodaphone, Chennai
Mr Rajesh Mitta, Pidilite Industries Mumbai
Mr Venkateshwar Kumar, Pantaloon India Bangalore
21. Executive Search - Success Stories IV
Auto, Garment, Textiles, Telecom, Infrastructure
Mr Mann, Business Head – Arvind Garments, Bangalore
Mr V.S. Ramesh Rao, SBU Head, O&M, Suzlon, Pune
Mr. Praveen Tandon, Head Accounts, Enercon, Mumbai
Mr. Rajesh Mehta, Senior GM Marketing, Pidilite, Mumbai
Mr. Shankar Aiyer, Head Sales & Marketing, Hutch Chennai
Mr Sridhar, GM Finance, Hutch AP, Hyderabad
Mr Suresh Head IT, Hutch AP, Hyderabad
Mr Nagarajan Raja, Spencers Retail , Kolkata
Mr Sanjay Mishra, Spencers Retail , Kolkata
Mr Shukla, RPG Cellucom, Kolkata
Mr Jairaj Hegde, Pidilite Mumbai
Mr Rajat Vanshi, Pidilite India
Mr M.S. Vasan, Enercon India, Mumbai
Mr Ramesh Menon, Spencers Retail , Kolkata
22. Executive Search - Success Stories V
Auto, Garment, Textiles, Telecom, Infrastructure
Mr Kailash Advani, President, Habitat India, Bangalore
Mr Senthilkumar, Rivoli Group Dubai
Mr Subramaniam, Colorplus, Chennai
Mr Chacko, Skyquest Singapore & Bangalore
Mr Deepak Haralalka, Raychem RPG Mumbai
Mr Ankur Lodha, DNA Media Mumbai
Mr Arvind Arshad, Flyington Freighters Chennai
Mr Ravikanth, Club Mahindra , Chennai
Mr Anilkumar, CEO Dairy, Heritage , Hyderabad
Mr Ashok George, CEO , Heritage Hyderabad
23. Executive Search Division : Sample
Mandates
January 2009
1. We are sharing a few of the senior management
mandates on which we are working. Please note that this
is not a complete list and we have taken care to hide the
names etc of our clients for business reasons.
2. You would note from the same that we are working on
mandates across the India, Americas, Europe etc etc
24. Executive Search Division : Sample Mandates I
VP Sales Remote Infrastructure Services Company, New Jersey, USA
SBU Head / VP Rs 400 crores Auto Ancilliary Company, Gurgaon
Vice President , Logistics company , Mumbai
Europe Head , USD 350 million software services company , London
COO, Engineering Product company , Mumbai
CFO – Solar energy company , Hyderabad
CEO – Biofuels , Mumbai
COO – Life Sciences, Mumbai
CEO – Ports , Chennai
CEO – Shipyards, Gujarat
25. Executive Search Division : Sample Mandates II
Head Solar Energy Systems – Top Industrial Group Mumbai
Managing Director, US $ 300 Million software services company
Head – Projects , Rs 500 crores pre IPO company , Chennai
Head – HR , Rs 500 crores pre-IPO company , Chennai
Head HR , Top MNC engineering company , Pondycherry
SBU Head – Defense Business, Bangalore
CEO – Railways Business, US $ 6 Billion engineering Group,
Faridabad
CEO – Shipyard, US $ 6 Billion engineering Group , Chennai
CEO – Bio-diesel company , US $ 15 Billion conglomerate, Mumbai
CEO – Turbines, US $ 6 Billion engineering Group , Baroda
Head HR , Life Sciences company , Mumbai
26. Executive Selection Division
Focus on middle and junior management
From Area Sales Manager to Finance
Manager to Production Manager
Across all functions
The Head Hunters India exclusive
database of 250 000 management
professionals is used for first level of
screening
We have placed over 5800 managers in the
last 20 years across sectors
27. Turn-key Projects Division
Caters to bulk recruitments in short period
of time
JIT – “Just-in-Time” Recruitment growing
trend
Have conducted several ‘recruitment drives’
in software over week-ends resulting in over
125 offers on a single day
28. Flexi-staffing Division – Software
24 hour turnaround from client indent to
arranging candidates for interview
Joining time between 3 to 15 days
Software candidates in all areas like Testing,
PL/SQL, Java, DBAs, SAP
Option of “contract to hire” at any point in time
29. Our Recipe
A quick and firm grasp of clients corporate culture,
value systems, goals and business plans .
+
20 yrs of expertise in interviewing, assessing ,
identifying top notch talent across the globe
+
38 highly trained and highly motivated recruiters, and
well qualified engineers, MBA’s many with sectoral
focus
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With a 250,000 strong resume database
30. Our Strength
Strong background and experience of
management and workforce
Faster response that few can deliver
Better equipped to understand the needs of
the company
Strong ability to screen candidates and
understand what people are suited for the
jobs
Can cater to a wide variety of needs
31. Mr Kris Lakshmikanth MBA (IIMC)
CEO & Managing Director
Mobile +919449075739 & +91 99457 55000
or
Dr. Uthappa
Sr Vice President
Mobile +91 99800 44778
The Head Hunters India Pvt Ltd
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